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• Anna Elisabeth Kanne, Odoorn († 2020)
• Elizabeth Ann Burns, England († 2016)
• Betty Aerts, Rilland-Bath, Zeeland, Nederland († 2015)
• Cornelis Marie van Loon, Roosendaal († 2004)
• Catharina Theodora Maria Antoinette Hermans, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1992)
• Anne DECKERS, Antwerpen, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgique († 2014)
• Carl James SHEPHARD, Burnie, Tasmania, Australia († 2009)
• Berend Jan Keizer, Groningen († 2018)
• Cornie Adrian Landegent, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 2008)
• Adriana Cornelia Maria Oomen, Alphen en Riel († 1943)

• Berend Grefhorst (0), Apeldoorn
• Carolus Wilhelmus Johannes Beerens (74), 's-Gravenhage
• Alva B. Blocker (35), Houston, Harris, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Arnoud Johan Carel Loten van Doelen Grothe (42), Montélimar (F)
• Alida Maria Heumen (51), 's Hertogenbosch
• Albert Zomer (85), Kampen
• Bastiaan Kamerbeek (93), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew Pencak (43), Detroit, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Termorshuizen (62), Delft
• Antje Tiekstra (57), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1929 » Arte Johnson, American actor and comedian († 2019)
• 1929 » Fireball Roberts, American race car driver († 1964)
• 1929 » Masaharu Kawakatsu, Japanese biologist
• 1930 » Buzz Aldrin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1931 » David Lee, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 » Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese pianist and composer († 1992)
• 1932 » Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player († 2016)
• 1934 » Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author, and academic († 2014)
• 1934 » Tom Baker, English actor
• 1935 » Dorothy Provine, American actress, singer, and dancer († 2010)

• 1913 » José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1915 » Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, Irish businessman, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1840)
• 1920 » Georg Lurich, Estonian-Russian wrestler and strongman (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1847)
• 1924 » Henry "Ivo" Crapp, Australian footballer and umpire (b. 1872)
• 1936 » George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861)
• 1944 » James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Andrew Volstead, American member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b. 1911)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Petrus
8. Gerrit
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Gerardus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Jacob
14. Antonius
15. Arie
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Helena
15. Margaretha
16. Grietje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.1 million citizens.
• January 12 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
• May 15 » In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
• May 29 » World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
• July 29 » Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
• August 10 » A 5.1 kilograms (11lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
• December 27 » Radio City Music Hall, "Showplace of the Nation", opens in New York City.

The temperature on January 20, 1932 was between -3.2 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.